Famous Among Top Surgeons in the 90s

Chapter 24: 【24】Science Top Scholar 3

What is this cousin saying? Is she suggesting that her own daughter is about to surpass my sister’s son? Zhou Ruomei felt a darkness at the bottom of her eyes and asked in a heavy voice, “Are you sure it was her teacher who said that Yingying’s score can get her admitted to the medical school in the Capital?”

“Yes, her teacher said so.”

“It wasn’t her teacher who said it, she said it herself!” Xie Changrong interjected from the side.

“Yingying said it herself?” Zhou Ruomei caught the handle on her cousin, and burst into laughter, “That’s not right, it should be her teacher’s word, not something Yingying can determine by herself.”

“I believe what she said, she mentioned her teacher believes she can, she wouldn’t lie.” Sun Rongfang insisted on trusting her daughter.

“Exactly how many points did she score? Let me help her evaluate it,” Zhou Ruomei asked with a flippant tone.

“Seven hundred and twenty-one,” Sun Rongfang answered.

“How many?” In that instant, Zhou Ruomei thought her ears had deceived her.

“Seven hundred and twenty-one,” Sun Rongfang, fearing she had read it wrong, took her daughter’s score report and read the score again, “No mistake, it’s seven hundred and twenty-one.”

Now that she heard clearly, Zhou Ruomei stood up and shouted, “You read it wrong, you saw it wrong, it must be a mistake!!!”

Having had a son and daughter who had gone through the college entrance examination, Zhou Ruomei was very clear on what the total score of the examination was. The total score was seven hundred and fifty points; seven hundred and twenty-one would certainly be sky-high.

“It really is a total score of seven hundred and twenty-one points.” Sun Rongfang read her daughter’s score report three times very carefully and said to her cousin, “Cousin, although I only finished the first grade of elementary school, I do recognize numbers and can do accounting.”

“Ruomei.”

A shout came from the doorstep, it was her husband coming home, and Zhou Ruomei quickly turned her head.

“Do you know how many points our province’s top science student in the college entrance exam scored this year?” Ding Yuhai casually chatted with his wife about the gossip as he walked in and changed his shoes.

The day the college entrance examination results came out, people passed on related rumors, which quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys. People at the hospital had already been discussing it, as intellectuals paid more attention to the news about the college entrance exam. If Zhou Ruomei hadn’t had the day off and stayed at home, she would have been talking about it at the hospital already.

“What are you saying?” A curious Zhou Ruomei asked her husband.

“Seven hundred and twenty-one points. They say that this science provincial top scholar is actually from our city’s Jin Qiao High School. My goodness, it’s simply unimaginable.” Ding Yuhai patted his forehead to express the same surprise as everyone else, “You know, when has our city ever produced the top science student? That’s always been the business of the provincial capital’s schools.”

Seven hundred and twenty-one points? Zhou Ruomei’s eyes widened in shock.

“Who are you on the phone with?” Ding Yuhai nudged his wife’s shoulder and asked, “Isn’t your cousin’s daughter studying at Jin Qiao High School? Ask her if it was one of her daughter’s classmates who got the top science score?”

“Her daughter— ” Zhou Ruomei hesitated.

“How many points did her daughter score?” Ding Yuhai asked.

“Seven hundred and twenty-one,” Zhou Ruomei’s voice got softer and softer, “Maybe my cousin read the score wrong?”

“Isn’t seven hundred and twenty-one points the score of the top science student?” After a moment, Ding Yuhai realized something and suddenly stopped short, “Your cousin’s daughter is the top science student?”

“No no no, that’s impossible, how could it be possible!” Zhou Ruomei yelled loudly.

“Cousin, what are you saying?” Sun Rongfang felt something was off with her cousin’s voice and asked anxiously.

Xie Changrong leaned in close to the phone to listen along with his wife.

Xie Youtian told his parents, “Sister is packing up her stuff in the room. Dad, Mom.”